Flash your bios on a pc with no floppy drive.

flashcd.iso is an image of a bootable DOS7 floppy. In order to make it
usable to also handle your bios flash files it has a cdrom driver and
mscdex.exe loaded. What you will be doing is adding your bios flashing
program and bios file to the .iso and then burning the .iso to cd.

It has 4 IDE drivers and 1 SATA driver CDrom driver in the boot menu 
to select, although your PC will most likely see the first IDE driver
and if SATA, the SATA driver.  
and,
An option to boot with NO CDrom driver if required in case you don't
want any drivers loading up at all. 


BEGIN WARNING 

The best way to flash a bios is using a clean booting 1.44 floppy disk 
but most pcs are built these days without one.

If you have another pc with a floppy drive, you should really first try
copying your bios flash files to a clean, bootable dos floppy and then
burning a boot cd from the boot floppy that contains the flash utilities
and using that cd on your floppyless pc.

If the above are not options then using this util and instructions is
another way to address your dilemma.

Please be aware of the possible implications of flashing before you
proceed and ALSO make sure that:

1. The bios flash upgrade from your motherboard maker actually addresses
the problem you are trying to solve.

2. You make a backup of your bios which you should be able to do on your
hard drive but also save the backup to a CD like this one so you can get 
to it later with a bootable CD such as this. Many bios flashing utilities
have a choice for backing up your existing BIOS should the flash not work.

3. Keep in mind tho, if a flash goes bad, or doesn't work afterwords as 
planned, you _may_ not be able to "reflash" with the original saved copy 
of your original/saved/previous BIOS. 

4. So be as sure as you can be that you "really" need to flash. 

END WARNING 


There are 2 files in this zippack, this readme and the flashcd.iso file.
If you just burn the .iso as a test you'll see the bootfiles as drive A:
What you are going to do is add your bios flash files to flashcd.iso and
then burn your bootable cd which will inlcude your bios files which will
be seen in drive R: after you boot. I'd also add the bios backup file you 
made to your flash CD. 

I use UltraISO to do this. It's a free trial. www.ezbsystems.com

To add bios files:

File | Open | Select flashcd.iso | Open | Image windows shows bootable |
Select your bios files in the lower window | Drag to the top window | File |
Save

or,

Actions | Add Files | Open | File | Save

Note that oddly, the file size of flashcd.iso may not change. 

To burn:

File | Open | Click on flashcd.iso | Open | You'll see your bios flash
files on the right | Tools | Burn

When you boot with the cd the startup files will be seen as drive A: and
the bios files you added will be seen in drive R: